CVE-2015-1431
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/startup.php in phpBB before 3.0.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to "Relative Path Overwrite."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2015-1566)
- Published
- February 10, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2015-1566 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- phpbb / phpbb
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3316
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25
- https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13531
- https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.0.13
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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